Placement Papers - Accenture

Paper: Accenture Placement Paper Pattern Held On 7th April 2007 At Noida (Interview)

Round 1: Non Technical Written (55 ques 60 mins)
There is no point telling u the questions bcz it was conducted by some private placement consultancy but basically this is how it was..

a)Aptitude: damn easy .. hd abt 20 ques .. very easy is d word.. keep d speed .. leave d question d moment u feel u want b able to do it .. just attempt what u know and be confident

b)English: Again very simple .. 2 passages .. 1 ws on US shrimp imports .. this was a bit tough to comprehend .. d 2nd one was on ATM\'s .. very easy

c)Reasoning: simple question of + replaced wid /, - wid * then compute d value of say 2+3-7=2/3*7 .. bt remember that there were these 3 question where u were suppose to find d correct option out of 4 2+5*6 etc .. dnt attempt it .. it will b a waste of tym.. jst choose 1 option and tick it blankly

d)4 probability question .. easy ones as i was told .. i cdnt solve them make sure u have speed+accuracy .. d cutoff was abt 45 correct attempts .. don\'t go haywire ticking d same option in a line .. it want help

Round 2: GD
my topic ws "is foreign education necessary fr success" .. thr were 10 ppl nd i ws d only 1 against d topic .. if u do so mk sure u hv d capability to defend urself .. 3 out of 10 wr selected bcz there was too much of pandemonium .. in 1 group all 10 were selected bcz dey all spoke 1 by one

Round 3: HR interview
well .. 1 .. plz do d talkin and do it properly .. a lady interviewed me .. b at ur comfort .. i was asked about myself .. i did not answer likely d usual dt these r my strenghts nd weaknesses etc .. she was impressed .. again go unconventional only if u have a power to defend it. it lasted abt 15 mins. almost 80% of d ppl who appeared were through u would d HR

Round 4: Technical interview
dis ws d elimination round so i will tell u my ques nd answer as well. my intervies started at 2 in d night and continued from 30 mins approx. there were 2 interviewers (int = interviewer & me =me obviously)

int:so r u exhausted
me:absoultely sir .. any human wd be at 2 in d morning when u have been all awake since 8 in d morning .. iam sure same goes for u (plz dn lie dt ur all fresh wn its 2 in d morning .. dn lie actually .. dey will c thru u if u do)

int:oh yes evn im exhausted .. bt evn if its 2 in d morning i expect reasonable answers from u
me:i will give it my best shot sir

int:so wts ur favourite subject?
me:sir tho i lyk microprocessors bt these days im all gaga ovr artificial intelligence (dis ws a gamble bcz nobody says AI .. ppl say C/C++/microprocessor .. bt d gamble worked bcz he was impressed ..and plz say only d subject our very thorough wid .. lyk im very comfi wd AI/micro/C/C++)

int:so wts AI all about
me:i explained all about reasoning and knowledge representation .. hard and soft AI .. dempster sheffer theory nd bayes theorm

int: so can we shift to C and C++
me:sure sir

int: what r global and local variables
me: local variables r only valid within d delimiters within which they r decleared. global variables are accessbile to all function below which the above which d global varible has been decleared

int: what a macro
me:i explained

int: what a router
me: i explained

int:hw does a router select d shortest path of communication
me:its an intelligent device and has a router algorithm in it which selectes d shortest path

int:wts d difference b/w circuit switching nd packet switching
me:i cdnt recollect so i told him dont i cdnt .. he moved on wid a smile

int:askd me to write a program in assembly langaugue to find d factorial of a number
me:dts tough .. but i did it never the less ...he was impressed.

int:write a program in C to accept names nd roll numbers of students as long as d user wnts
me:d catch here is "as long as d user wants" .. initially i did it fr 50 loops ... than he asked me d mistake and i told him its not indefinite .. than he asked me to correct it .. i did it using malloc ..

int:is thr anything else u want to ask us
me:is thr anything i need to do since im from ECE so dt im at par wid cs guys

int:im impressed. nice ques. u stdy DBMS/RDBMS/Java nd gt accquainted wid oracle 10g
me:thanks sir gdnyt